The section will help you with steps to install JA Educatsy template - Quickstart and Manual installation.

System requirement

Please make sure your system meets the following requirements:

Installation

The section will help you with the steps to install the JA Educatsy template. There are 2 options to install.

• Quickstart installation: Replicate template demo to your server.
• Manual installation: install template, plugin manually on your Joomla site

Download packages

T4 Framework download section includes the following files:

• Quickstart package
• JA Educatsy template
• T4 Framework plugin
• JA ACM Module
• JA Masthead Module
• Guru Pro LMS extension (commercial)

Quickstart installation

Quickstart installation allows you to replicate demo site to your server with all T4 extensions installed and demo content

Joomla 3 quickstart Installation tutorial

Joomla 4 quickstart Installation tutorial

Manual Installation

Installing T4 framework on your existing Joomla website.

Step 1. Install T4 framework plugin

From your back-end setting panel, go to: "Extensions > Extension Manager", browse the T4 plugin installation file then hit the "Upload and Install"

By default, the T4 plugin will be auto-enabled after installation. You can check this by going to "Extensions > Plugin Manager" then find T4 Plugin.

Step 2: Install JA Educatsy template

From your back-end setting panel, go to "Extensions > Extension Manager", browse JA Educatsy template installation package then hit the "Upload and Install".

Go to: "Extensions > Template Manager", set JA Educatsy template style as your default template style.

Template folder structure

This section is to help you understand the folder structure of the JA Educatsy template, where to find the files you want.

JA Educatsy template

JA Educatsy template is built on the T4 Framework so its folder structure is almost the same as any other JA Templates that are developed with T4 Framework.

/templates/ja_alpha/
+-- scss/                 /*  all SCSS files */ 
+--     scss/tpl                 /*  theme tpl SCSS files */ 
¦    +--  acm.scss
¦    +-- all.scss
¦    +--  offcanvas.scss
¦    +--  styles.scss
¦    +--  type.scss
¦    +--  utilities.scss
¦    +--  variables.scss
¦    +-- vars.scss
¦    +-- guru.scss
¦    +--  jpages.scss
¦    +--  rtl.scss
¦    +--  template.scss
¦    +--  bootstrap.scss
¦    +--  components.scss
¦    +--  forms.scss
¦    +--  global.scss
¦    +--  joomla.scss
¦    +--  megamenu.scss
¦    +--  modules.scss
¦    +--  navigations.scss
+-- scss/tpls 


+-- css/                     /*compiled files from SCSS*/
¦    +-- template.css
¦    +-- rtl.css
¦    +-- acm.css
¦    +-- jpages.css
¦    +-- off-canvas.css/
¦    +-- offline.css/
¦    +-- guru.css/
+-- acm/               /*JA Advanced Custom Module content type*/
¦    +-- cta/
¦    ¦    +-- config.xml
¦    ¦    +-- css/
¦    ¦    +-- tmpl/
¦    ¦    +-- js/
+-- html/               /*override modules and Joomla com_content*/
¦    +-- com_content/
¦    ¦    +-- article/
¦    ¦    +-- category/
¦    ¦    +-- featured/
¦    +-- com_contact/
¦    +-- com_users/
¦    +-- com_tags/
¦    +-- com_search/
¦    +-- com_finder/
¦    +-- mod_masthead/
¦    +-- mod_articles_latest/
¦    +-- mod_guru_courses/
¦    +-- mod_guru_search/
¦    +-- mod_articles_category/
¦    +-- layouts/
¦    +-- ...
+-- fonts/ 
¦    +-- font-awesome/
¦    ¦    +-- css/
¦    ¦    +-- fonts/

+-- js/ 
¦    +-- bootstrap.bundle.js
¦    +-- template.js
¦    +-- imagesloaded.pkgd.js
¦    +-- isotope.pkgd.js
+-- images/
+-- language/
+-- templateDetails.xml  
+-- templateInfo.php/
+-- thememagic.xml/     /*the file is to add new group, parameters to ThemeMagic*/
+-- templateHook.php/

T4 Framework

You can find the folder structure of the T4 Framework at http://t4-framework.org/documentation/installation#folder-structure.

This section will help you build the pages the same as the JA Educatsy demo site.

The Demo site Use 2 types of Home Pages both use same Menu type and content except the Guru Pro courses module

1. Homepage Guru Pro

View homepage position layout:

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Here is the instruction to create the same Homepage page

Step 1 - Create a template style

The page uses Home layout so we have to create a template style. The best way to create the template is by cloning the JA Educatsy default template style. to create the different types of Homepages like in the demo you need to duplicate the default template style and assign it to the different pages.

Here is the default layout structure of the template used for all other pages.

Step 2 - Create the Home page menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Featured Article menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- Home" template style.

Home Menu does not display articles from the menu output. All content on the homepage is from the modules.

Step 3 - Assign content to the Home page

Content of the Homepage is loaded from modules. Here is the detailed configuration of each module.

The template comes with the menu a module on the right side of Main nav with Login and signup button.

1.Right Header Module

Module position: head-actions
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

2. Lead Hero JA ACM Module

Module position: hero
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

Hero Module loads a Guru search module as well. Here are the configurations:

Hero Guru Search Module

Module position: hero-search
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

3.CASE STUDIES JA ACM Module

Module position: section-1
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

4. Education Benefits JA ACM Module

Module position: section-2
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

5. Start Learning Today JA ACM Module

Module position: section-3
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

6. Start Learning Today JA ACM Module

Module position: section-4
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

Start Learning Today Module different modules in it. To create the same view as in the demo site. Create a module with type > Guru courses. Publish it on positions: container-tabs

Each guru course module uses a different category to show the courses as below:

7. Marketing Module

Module position: container-tabs
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: grid

• General settings
• Extra settings

8. Why choose Us JA ACM Module

Module position: section-5
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

9. CTA JA ACM Module

Module position: section-6
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

10.Our blog Articles category Module

Module position: section-7
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: article

• General settings
• filter settings
• order settings
• display settings
• advance settings
• Extra settings

11. Testimonials JA ACM Module

Module position: section-8
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

Footer Module

Template footer part consists of multiple modules from position footnav 1 to footnav 5. This includes custom HTML modules and Joomla menu modules to show the footer menu items.

12. Follow US JA ACM Module

Module position: footnav-5
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

Home Page Joomla Content

This menu type use featured Articles menu type to show the latest featured articles and Courses type articles.

Here is the instruction to create the same Home layout page

Create Home Joomla Content layout menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Featured Articles menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- home" template style.

• Menu layout options
• Menu options

Kindly follow the Home Page Guru Menu settings to get exact same look for all the module configurations. The Home Joomla content use Articles category module to display the Start Learning Today module.

Start Learning Today JA ACM Module

Module position: section-4
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

Start Learning Today Module different modules in it. To create the same view as in the demo site. Create a module with type > Guru courses. Publish it on positions: container-tabs

Each Articles category module uses a different category to show the courses as below:

IT & Development category Module

Module position: container-tabs
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: course

• General settings
• filter settings
• order settings
• display settings
• advance settings
• Extra settings

2. Course Categories Page

This menu type displays GuruPro course categories list.

Here is an instruction to create the same Course Categories page

Create Category List Layout menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add new a menu item, select Guru » Category List Layout menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- default" template style.

• Menu options

3. Development Page

This menu type display Guru courses from the selected category.

Here is the instruction to create the same Courses category layout page

Create Courses category layout menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Guru » Courses category layout menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- default" template style.

• Menu options

4. IT & software Page

This menu type display course type article using special blog menu type.

To get the same articles on a website the article must use Course extra fields

Here is the instruction to create the same Courses category layout page

Create Courses category layout menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Article » Courses category blog layout menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- default" template style.

• Category options
• Blog options
• Article options

5. News Page

This menu type displays the news section of the website using Joomla articles.

Here is the instruction to create the same News page

Create blog page menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Category blog menu type and assign "JA Educatsy- default" template style.

• category options
• Blog layout options
• options

Here is module configuration loaded on News Page

1. Masthead Module

Module position: masthead
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

2. Login Module

Module position: sidebar-r
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

3. Latest Articles Module

Module position: sidebar-r
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra settings

6. Contact page

A special Contact page for JA Educatsy template to show the contact form.

Here is the instruction to create the same contact page

In Component > Contact > Create a new contact item before creating the Menu item

• Item settings
• display settings

Create Contact menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Contact » Single contact menu type and assign "JA Educatsy - Default" template style.

In the Contact component, please make sure You have created contact item so you can assign it to the menu item

• Contact settings
• display settings

Extra Fields

Course type articles use this Extra field in the article to make the Joomla article as course.

Extra fields allow to add course information:

• Course Price
• Sale Price
• No. of students
• Course level
• Course duration
• Purchase link
• Course option to add course content

To show these extra fields in Course article in Article open Article manager > Category > Open Category > Extra fields > Course. save and check all articles under this category will have the extra fields.